The Distress for Rent (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1999

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1999/2360 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2564 (L.20)

DISTRESS

The Distress for Rent (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1999

Made

10th September 1999

Coming into force in accordance with rule 1

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 8 of the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1888(1), and section 3 of the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1895(2), makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Distress for Rent (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1999 and shall come into force on 4th October 1999, immediately after the coming into force of the Distress for Rent (Amendment) Rules 1999(3).

Amendments to Distress for Rent Rules 1988

2.  Appendix 3 to the Distress for Rent Rules 1988(4) shall be amended as follows:

(a) the entry for Berwick & Morpeth shall be deleted;

(b) in column 2, opposite “Brighton”, “Brighton” shall be substituted for “Lewes”; and

(c) after the entry for Monmouth the following entry shall be inserted:

“Morpeth & Berwick

Morpeth & Berwick”.

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

David Lock

Parliamentary Secretary

Lord Chancellor’s Department

10th September 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules correct two errors in Appendix 3 to the Distress for Rent Rules 1998, which was inserted by Schedule 2 to the Distress for Rent (Amendment) Rules 1999:

(a) the issuing county court for Brighton County Court should be Brighton, not Lewes;

(b) the references to “Berwick & Morpeth” should read “Morpeth & Berwick”.

(1)

1888 c. 21.

(2)

1895 c. 24.

(3)

S.I. 1999/2360.

(4)

S.I. 1988/2050; amended by S.I. 1999/2360 and modified by S.I. 1993/2072.